Job Application

As the Atlassian Application Operations Engineer you will have a deep understanding of Atlassian tools, plug ins and underlying technology. You would be responsible for the ongoing maintenance and development of Atlassian tools supporting the organisation's digital service.

Your role will be supporting, maintaining, and developing our on-premise (Data Centre) installation of Atlassian products including Jira Software, Jira Service Management and Confluence.

Key accountabilities:

• Administer the Back End Atlassian infrastructure and ensure the platform is highly available, reliable and secure
• Lead the Upgrading of Atlassian Data Centre products and plug-ins
• Build a replica of Production in DEV
• Upgrade in repeatable steps until confident to replicate Production upgrade
• Administrate the patching, backup and recovery of the Atlassian infrastructure
• Configure in a Staging environment a Data Centre instance supporting a resilient system (load balanced and distributed)
• Support the business in creating Jira projects and Confluence spaces
• Creating workflows, fields, screens, reports, dashboards etc. based on custom requirements
• Provide new ideas or processes for using the Atlassian suite more effectively
• Determine ways to optimise/improve Jira process workflows, as well as identify where functionality can/cannot meet user requests
• Develop metrics dashboards and advanced filters in Jira to provide end-users and business leadership with meaningful operational/performance metrics and status reports

Key requirements:

• Experience in the Atlassian Data Centre administration, configuration and support of Jira and Confluence
• Proven track history of upgrading Data Centre configurations and resilient infrastructure
• In-depth Jira, Jira Service Management, Confluence configuration and workflow changes
• Jira projects, access and administration
• Deep understanding of Atlassian architecture, focusing on JIRA, Jira Service Management and Confluence with a deep understanding of modularised workflows, permission schemes, notification schemes
• Proven ability to quickly pick up and understand complex technical issues and come up with solutions
• Skills to develop solutions for integration with other tools, automate manual processes, data migration routines and extract data for reporting and analytics purposes
• Jira add-ons, associated plug-ins and extension
• JIRA reporting and report filters

Desirable Skills:

• Working knowledge of using Jira REST API or other REST based web services
• Proficiency in Linux server support and configuration as well as command line troubleshooting utilities.

Hybrid working in either London or Glasgow, there is flexibility for days required onsite

If you consider yourself to have a disability or if you are a veteran, and you meet the essential criteria for the role, you will be put forward for the Guaranteed Interview' scheme whereby you will have the opportunity to discuss this role and your suitability with a member of the Sourcing team.

If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the equivalent PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information.

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